Anyone holding Bitcoins -- or pretty much any cryptocurrency, really -- has taken a substantial hit in the last few months, with the exchange rate of dollars to Bitcoins dropping from a high of around $1200 last November to around $550 today...

Interesting article on the unmanned cargo ships. I work in the shipping industry and it's not just the ships, but the onload/offload is becoming more and more automated. I visited a port in Gunsan, South Korea where there were only a handful of workers, and they were there to monitor the bot cranes and trains that offloaded cargo ships. Very impressive.